for me it was back in 2012 i think
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1999
I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!
No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.
2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I’m currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we’re rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.
- Rural Germany.
Dial up in 2015? How?
With a bluetooth modem lol
2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.
I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbps OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).
Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.
I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.
I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.
My exact timeline.
Hello fellow 45 year old.
Hey! How are your knees.
Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins
What was the time in-between those two?
Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps
The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.
So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?
Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.
Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
- I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.
2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.
Somewhere around 2005
1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.
I want to say it was about 2005 or 2006.
My first “broadband” was Hughes satellite internet, due to living in a rural location. It was hot garbage, but it was better than dialup.
The speeds were Ok (for me), but the data cap (applied daily) was draconian. I don’t recall the specific amount but it basically made it impossible to stream video in any capacity.
There was a 3-hour period from midnight to 3am every night where the cap didn’t count. That effectively became internet time because it was unusable otherwise.
I got cable in 2010.
2000? Earlier? 🤔
I’m not exactly sure when we had first upgraded from 56.6k dialup to a DSL(? If I am remembering the acronym right; it was phone line broadband not cable) line. I was still playing Ultima Online at the time so it had to be prior to 2003 (I quit when Age of Shadows fucked the game all up).
By 2007, we had cable Internet and it was like triple the speeds of the DSL.
Depends on what you mean by “stop using”. We never even had Internet at the house I grew up in, but for at least one job around 2000, we had dial-up on standby in case the ISDN went down, and occasionally used it for side projects even when the ISDN was working. (In fact I’m not sure we ever needed to fail over in the time I was there.). One of those side projects was mine, which means that ~2000 was the first and last time I was a dial-up user.
But then there’s provisioning dial-up, which is kind of using it from the other end …iiif you squint a bit. In that case people were still occasionally signing up with another company I worked for circa 2014. I could probably have found the usage stats back then, but was never curious enough to check and never had the need to, and I’ve since moved on.
Best as I can tell, that company no longer offers sign-ups to old-school dial-up service. Can’t say I’m surprised. I do wonder if they’ve any old accounts grandfathered in though. I don’t remember the dial-up number to check if there’s something modem-y on the other end.
As soon as I could.
I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?
